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CHARACTER NAME: Mae Crawford
SERIES: The Demon's Lexicon trilogy; Sarah Rees Brennan. Considering the lacking information about these books that exist online, I've written up the major outline of the series from Mae's point of view up until the canon point from which she's taken.
CANON POINT: The ending scene of Demon's Covenant; right after "You're a leader, so lead."
AGE: 18ish?
APPEARANCE: Pink-dyed hair, brown eyes; short and curvy, mostly light on her feet, not very enthusiastic about sports. Has great boobs, I kid you not - they're a thing, in the books.
PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY: N/A
PERSONALITY: PERSONALITY; EXTENDED:
(First of all, it needs mentioning that each of the books in the trilogy are told from the point of view of a different character. The first one is narrated by Nick, whose perceptions of people are simplistic at best, while at worst he simply doesn't care enough to figure out why they do what they do. The second book, we read from Mae's point of view, and it is mostly here that we learn of her challenges in the canon and how they've affected her.)
Chronologically speaking, Mae's life can be summarized in a series of disappointments, and the ways she has overcome them on her own. She is born the first child to a couple of very successful people, neither of whom end up being very well equipped for parenthood. We learn in the second novel that Mae and Jamie's father divorces their mother and starts a new family, and it's implied that they were just his test family of sorts. Mavis, by her given name, is supposed to be the typical posh daughter, with the good grades and the private education and the normal activities; from a young age, she proves to be a complete challenge for her parents by being exactly the contrary. Her mother, not being the most affectionate woman alive, doesn't provide her with the care and attention a child craves, but she gives Mae a little brother. It's safe to assume that all of Mae's capacity for love and affection gets instantly transferred onto Jamie.
They have their saying: you and me against the world, because they are each other's biggest support, each other's family. Their parents provide the roof over their heads, the extra-curricular activities of all variations - from yogalates, to ballroom dancing, to chess to French to fencing to horsebackriding etc - but it's up to the siblings to provide each other with laughter and love and warmth. They are affectionate with one another, perhaps too much so. Mae breaks the coldness of a disinterested family, of a too-large-for-three-people house, by being as enthusiastic, as optimistic, as stubbornly vivacious as she can. She dyes her hair pink, not out of rebellion - she claims - but because the colour represents her soul better than her standard brown hair would. She wears layers of jewelry like an armour, and is unbashful about her figure, all as a way of saying look at me, pay attention to me to the people who only see this as an offensive thing.
Mae's ally is Jamie. She is the one who usually gets in trouble at home, being the type of girl to consider going to raves and coming home drunk in the morning and partying in the rough side of town an adventure, while Jamie is the better kid. And she is fine with that, fine with taking the punishments and the stern looks, as long as nobody touches her brother. Until, of course, someone does.
As it turns out, as they find out, in spite of Mae's hopes and dreams of realising one day that she is a witch (magic kept happening around her as a child!), she finds out that Jamie is in fact the magician. Before figuring this out, however, a Circle of magicians target Jamie, sending a demon to him in his dreams - in SRB's canon, demons can visit you three times, and mark you three times; if you get a third tier mark from a demon, you are set for being possessed and dying, as demons wear a body out by the week - and thus starts the adventure for real. She and Jamie find out that the only way to get rid of Jamie's mark is to kill a magician and wipe his blood across it. Mae is the one who does it. We hear her thoughts regarding the matter for the whole of the second novel - she isn't a cold blooded killer, ironically confessing herself a pacifist, but there are things that will drive her to cold murder, and that is her brother's life being put in danger. She has remorse over it, suffering from nightmares and feeling the guilt of knowing that man could've had a family as well, but it's ultimately still Jamie who takes priority, and for him she will live with having her hands dirty.
The funny thing is that all the other relationships she does develop are as a result of her relationship to her brother. (I know it's starting to sound Lannister-y here, but it's not I swear.) Gerard's impact on Mae is a stranger one: he is the antagonist in her life. He threatens her brother in a way she can't put a stop to - by being a seductive option for him, but pretending he understands what Jamie goes through better than anyone else, by threatening to pull him away from Mae. She goes through a lot of trouble to avoid comfronting him outwardly, aware that his abilities would have her dead in the blink of an eye, but she does everything in her power to put a stop to his plans and keep Jamie safe. Gerard is one of Mae's challenge, one of the many, because he is the one she has to defeat, admist a whole other bunch of things going on.
She meets the Ryves brothers because of Jamie's run-in with a demon. Her interraction with them both is initially tense: she's aware that Alan likes her, but has to be careful she's not leading him on. It results in making Nick wary of her during the first book (first year they know each other), because he believes Mae is hurting Alan; it's not intentional, of course. For the first period of time they are in contact with each other, Mae's head is wrapped up around the danger her brother is in more than finding a boyfriend. It doesn't stop her from hitting on Nick, ironically, but this - we find out - is because they have an easy banter between them. The truth is, Mae is more than just sure of herself, brave and vivacious, she is flirty to a boot. The best example is her reaction to catching Nick looking down her shirt: she calls him out on it, and when he shrugs and says he can't be blamed, her answer is thanks, I grew them myself. This sets the tone for their banter and flirting, but it generally does not go further than that. Not for a while.
She is a woman divided between them, when they come back into her life a second time, but it's for more reasons than romance. While she does find Alan charming, and seems to understand some things about him after spending time together (like how he rambles because he has to fill the silence his brother leaves around him; or how he lies without ever revealing it) , their romance never takes off. She discovers that he is lying, and believes that he is conspiring with Gerard to strip Nick of his powers (it is later found out this is an erroneous assumption, as Alan intended to use tricks and plot twists to actually finish Gerard, but he didn't trust Mae with the plan so she messes that up for him), so she ends whatever chance they had. For tense while, Alan becomes another antagonist, only one that puts himself in danger as well. To help Alan, Nick, and Jamie this time around, Mae does reckless things like summoning demons on her own, knowing the risk of being possessed if something goes wrong, or brilliant things, like organizing a rebellion against the magicians through the entire Goblin Market, which ends in a gruesome battle.
And all this, spanned throughout some weeks, during which she plays Florence Nightingale to Nick. As it turns out, Nick's condition as a supernatural being that he is renders him not very good at reading. Somehow, she ends up being the one he trusts with reading the diary of his father, and Mae is there to hold his hand - metaphorically, he doesn't like to be touched - through the process of learning more about himself. All the while attempting to devise a plan to fix things for everyone and bring peace to the people she cares about. In the interrim, she grows fond of him as more than just this really hot guy; she grows to appreciate his ability to try and care, and in a true young adult novel fashion, finds herself feeling dokidoki when it comes to Nick. She trusts him enough, that when the Circle send a demon to Mae, the first person she calls is Nick, and the first thing she does is ask him to mark her, so no-one else can get to her and use her against Jamie.
I mentioned earlier that Mae's life is a series of disappointments, and it's true. She learns her brother is a magician and when she tries to be supportive of him she finds out he's being swayed by the pull of seductive older guys from evil Circles. She finds a fellow geek (books! Sumerian! trivia! Goblin Market!) in Alan as well as a potential boyfriend, only to find that he's using her (has her summon during a date, classy!) and lying to her and not trusting her at all with anything. She grows up feeling unloved by her parents, only to realise too late that her mother, at least, did love her - loved them both enough to face a hoarde of magicians to protect her children - but was not good at expressing it, only to lose her to death an hour later. She loses Jamie again, as he goes into a Circle to try and take it down from within. She finds a friend in Sin, a girl from the Market that charms her from the moment they meet, only to find herself in a rivalry for the position of Leader of the Market. She finds that she's in love with Nick, only to do this when her world is going to hell, and he's got her marked (for protection!), giving him power over her.
The bottom line is that she strives. She is stubborn in making sure everything has a solution, in fixing everything and caring for everyone, in saving everyone by herself. It can easily become her downfall, but it is also her most prominent trait: she has the heart of gold. She knows when the compartmentalise, when it's time for saving the world and when it's time for cuddling a hot guy. She is dauntless in the way she faces everything: never losing her sense of humour, not in the face of danger, death, or desire. She's reckless, sweet, packed with issues, and probably carrying a sign on her back that says love me, and she will dish out hugs if needed because she likes taking care of people more than she likes taking care of herself.
If Mae could be summarized by a couple of sentences, they would be: Every cloud has a silver lining, every problem has a solution. And Romeo & Juliet would've never worked out.
ABILITIES: Despite being a badass when she has to be, Mae is human. Sure, she can dance up a demon if given the instruments to carve up the circle, but aside from this, her abilities are normal. She likes magic, but that's hardly an ability. Also, LEADERSHIP! She's pretty good at that, although it's not mutant leadership powers, so is this fit for this section? I feel like I have not included LEADERSHIP enough in this app until now, let me give it to you again: LEADERSHIP!!
CHARACTER NAME: Mae Crawford
SERIES: The Demon's Lexicon trilogy; Sarah Rees Brennan. Considering the lacking information about these books that exist online, I've written up the major outline of the series from Mae's point of view up until the canon point from which she's taken.
CANON POINT: The ending scene of Demon's Covenant; right after "You're a leader, so lead."
AGE: 18ish?
APPEARANCE: Pink-dyed hair, brown eyes; short and curvy, mostly light on her feet, not very enthusiastic about sports. Has great boobs, I kid you not - they're a thing, in the books.
PREVIOUS GAME HISTORY: N/A
PERSONALITY: PERSONALITY; EXTENDED:
(First of all, it needs mentioning that each of the books in the trilogy are told from the point of view of a different character. The first one is narrated by Nick, whose perceptions of people are simplistic at best, while at worst he simply doesn't care enough to figure out why they do what they do. The second book, we read from Mae's point of view, and it is mostly here that we learn of her challenges in the canon and how they've affected her.)
Chronologically speaking, Mae's life can be summarized in a series of disappointments, and the ways she has overcome them on her own. She is born the first child to a couple of very successful people, neither of whom end up being very well equipped for parenthood. We learn in the second novel that Mae and Jamie's father divorces their mother and starts a new family, and it's implied that they were just his test family of sorts. Mavis, by her given name, is supposed to be the typical posh daughter, with the good grades and the private education and the normal activities; from a young age, she proves to be a complete challenge for her parents by being exactly the contrary. Her mother, not being the most affectionate woman alive, doesn't provide her with the care and attention a child craves, but she gives Mae a little brother. It's safe to assume that all of Mae's capacity for love and affection gets instantly transferred onto Jamie.
They have their saying: you and me against the world, because they are each other's biggest support, each other's family. Their parents provide the roof over their heads, the extra-curricular activities of all variations - from yogalates, to ballroom dancing, to chess to French to fencing to horsebackriding etc - but it's up to the siblings to provide each other with laughter and love and warmth. They are affectionate with one another, perhaps too much so. Mae breaks the coldness of a disinterested family, of a too-large-for-three-people house, by being as enthusiastic, as optimistic, as stubbornly vivacious as she can. She dyes her hair pink, not out of rebellion - she claims - but because the colour represents her soul better than her standard brown hair would. She wears layers of jewelry like an armour, and is unbashful about her figure, all as a way of saying look at me, pay attention to me to the people who only see this as an offensive thing.
Mae's ally is Jamie. She is the one who usually gets in trouble at home, being the type of girl to consider going to raves and coming home drunk in the morning and partying in the rough side of town an adventure, while Jamie is the better kid. And she is fine with that, fine with taking the punishments and the stern looks, as long as nobody touches her brother. Until, of course, someone does.
As it turns out, as they find out, in spite of Mae's hopes and dreams of realising one day that she is a witch (magic kept happening around her as a child!), she finds out that Jamie is in fact the magician. Before figuring this out, however, a Circle of magicians target Jamie, sending a demon to him in his dreams - in SRB's canon, demons can visit you three times, and mark you three times; if you get a third tier mark from a demon, you are set for being possessed and dying, as demons wear a body out by the week - and thus starts the adventure for real. She and Jamie find out that the only way to get rid of Jamie's mark is to kill a magician and wipe his blood across it. Mae is the one who does it. We hear her thoughts regarding the matter for the whole of the second novel - she isn't a cold blooded killer, ironically confessing herself a pacifist, but there are things that will drive her to cold murder, and that is her brother's life being put in danger. She has remorse over it, suffering from nightmares and feeling the guilt of knowing that man could've had a family as well, but it's ultimately still Jamie who takes priority, and for him she will live with having her hands dirty.
The funny thing is that all the other relationships she does develop are as a result of her relationship to her brother. (I know it's starting to sound Lannister-y here, but it's not I swear.) Gerard's impact on Mae is a stranger one: he is the antagonist in her life. He threatens her brother in a way she can't put a stop to - by being a seductive option for him, but pretending he understands what Jamie goes through better than anyone else, by threatening to pull him away from Mae. She goes through a lot of trouble to avoid comfronting him outwardly, aware that his abilities would have her dead in the blink of an eye, but she does everything in her power to put a stop to his plans and keep Jamie safe. Gerard is one of Mae's challenge, one of the many, because he is the one she has to defeat, admist a whole other bunch of things going on.
She meets the Ryves brothers because of Jamie's run-in with a demon. Her interraction with them both is initially tense: she's aware that Alan likes her, but has to be careful she's not leading him on. It results in making Nick wary of her during the first book (first year they know each other), because he believes Mae is hurting Alan; it's not intentional, of course. For the first period of time they are in contact with each other, Mae's head is wrapped up around the danger her brother is in more than finding a boyfriend. It doesn't stop her from hitting on Nick, ironically, but this - we find out - is because they have an easy banter between them. The truth is, Mae is more than just sure of herself, brave and vivacious, she is flirty to a boot. The best example is her reaction to catching Nick looking down her shirt: she calls him out on it, and when he shrugs and says he can't be blamed, her answer is thanks, I grew them myself. This sets the tone for their banter and flirting, but it generally does not go further than that. Not for a while.
She is a woman divided between them, when they come back into her life a second time, but it's for more reasons than romance. While she does find Alan charming, and seems to understand some things about him after spending time together (like how he rambles because he has to fill the silence his brother leaves around him; or how he lies without ever revealing it) , their romance never takes off. She discovers that he is lying, and believes that he is conspiring with Gerard to strip Nick of his powers (it is later found out this is an erroneous assumption, as Alan intended to use tricks and plot twists to actually finish Gerard, but he didn't trust Mae with the plan so she messes that up for him), so she ends whatever chance they had. For tense while, Alan becomes another antagonist, only one that puts himself in danger as well. To help Alan, Nick, and Jamie this time around, Mae does reckless things like summoning demons on her own, knowing the risk of being possessed if something goes wrong, or brilliant things, like organizing a rebellion against the magicians through the entire Goblin Market, which ends in a gruesome battle.
And all this, spanned throughout some weeks, during which she plays Florence Nightingale to Nick. As it turns out, Nick's condition as a supernatural being that he is renders him not very good at reading. Somehow, she ends up being the one he trusts with reading the diary of his father, and Mae is there to hold his hand - metaphorically, he doesn't like to be touched - through the process of learning more about himself. All the while attempting to devise a plan to fix things for everyone and bring peace to the people she cares about. In the interrim, she grows fond of him as more than just this really hot guy; she grows to appreciate his ability to try and care, and in a true young adult novel fashion, finds herself feeling dokidoki when it comes to Nick. She trusts him enough, that when the Circle send a demon to Mae, the first person she calls is Nick, and the first thing she does is ask him to mark her, so no-one else can get to her and use her against Jamie.
I mentioned earlier that Mae's life is a series of disappointments, and it's true. She learns her brother is a magician and when she tries to be supportive of him she finds out he's being swayed by the pull of seductive older guys from evil Circles. She finds a fellow geek (books! Sumerian! trivia! Goblin Market!) in Alan as well as a potential boyfriend, only to find that he's using her (has her summon during a date, classy!) and lying to her and not trusting her at all with anything. She grows up feeling unloved by her parents, only to realise too late that her mother, at least, did love her - loved them both enough to face a hoarde of magicians to protect her children - but was not good at expressing it, only to lose her to death an hour later. She loses Jamie again, as he goes into a Circle to try and take it down from within. She finds a friend in Sin, a girl from the Market that charms her from the moment they meet, only to find herself in a rivalry for the position of Leader of the Market. She finds that she's in love with Nick, only to do this when her world is going to hell, and he's got her marked (for protection!), giving him power over her.
The bottom line is that she strives. She is stubborn in making sure everything has a solution, in fixing everything and caring for everyone, in saving everyone by herself. It can easily become her downfall, but it is also her most prominent trait: she has the heart of gold. She knows when the compartmentalise, when it's time for saving the world and when it's time for cuddling a hot guy. She is dauntless in the way she faces everything: never losing her sense of humour, not in the face of danger, death, or desire. She's reckless, sweet, packed with issues, and probably carrying a sign on her back that says love me, and she will dish out hugs if needed because she likes taking care of people more than she likes taking care of herself.
If Mae could be summarized by a couple of sentences, they would be: Every cloud has a silver lining, every problem has a solution. And Romeo & Juliet would've never worked out.
ABILITIES: Despite being a badass when she has to be, Mae is human. Sure, she can dance up a demon if given the instruments to carve up the circle, but aside from this, her abilities are normal. She likes magic, but that's hardly an ability. Also, LEADERSHIP! She's pretty good at that, although it's not mutant leadership powers, so is this fit for this section? I feel like I have not included LEADERSHIP enough in this app until now, let me give it to you again: LEADERSHIP!!